The official website and accounts for the Rent-a-Girlfriend anime today announced that the fifth season will begin airing in April 2026 , while also revealing a key visual featuring Chizuru and Mami staring each other down. The visual's tagline reads, "Now, the fateful moment has arrived." Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5 Key Visual RELATED: Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 5 Anime Premieres in 2026 Kazuomi Koga ( Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible ) returned to direct Rent-a-Girlfriend Season 4 at studio TMS Entertainment, with series composition by Mitsutaka Hirota ( Days with My Stepsister ), character designs by Kanna Hirayama ( Oshi no Ko ) and music by Kenichi Maeyamada. Reiji Miyajima created the original manga. Crunchyroll streams the previous four seasons and describes the story: Kinoshita Kazuya is a 20-year-old failure of a college student. He managed to kiss his girlfriend once, but was dumped after a month. "Ugh… Damn it. I never want to go through that again." Completely spiteful, Kazuya uses a certain method to date a girl. He goes to their meeting place and suddenly hears, "You're Kazuya-kun, right?" A beautiful girl brushing her long, black hair behind her ear was there, smiling at him. Her name was Mizuhara Chizuru. Something real is born after just a single rental! A reckless rom-com filled with love and excitement is about to begin! Source: Official Website
